I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.